I got started when I was your age, actually a little bit younger, and they used to have concerts on Sunday afternoons by the monument, and on the far side of the Cambridge common there were people playing congas. After the concerts were over, and I'd get bored or something, and eventually end up at the drummers.
Bonnie Devlin is an American Unitarian Universalist Minister, music therapist, educator, performer, and activist.
Well, the short answer is yes, absolutely. The slightly more complicated answer is there's not A Goddess religion, that is it's not a single religion in the way that we tend to think about religions that have labels. It's got a lot of different diverse elements.
Marilyn Middleton-Sylla is the director of Bamidele Drummers and Dancers, a company that presents concerts, lecture demonstrations, workshops and classes of African dancing and drumming for K-12th grades, colleges, Universities, and theatres throughout New England and the United States.
Bill Thorpe is a second generation Irish-American citizen. His grandfather and siblings came to the country in the forties and his family was always steeped in the tradition of Celtic music, thriving in the fifties in the rich New York Irish ceili scene. His family has traveled the globe studying music, with many returning to the Celtic form.
Originally, I had registered for Universal Heartbeat because I thought it would be interesting to take a music class (something that I haven’t had since elementary school), because percussion was something that I haven’t been exposed to (I grew up playing mostly stringed instruments), and so that I wouldn’t go stir-crazy from all of the science courses that I’ve been taking. Throughout the run of the semester, though, I’ve discovered many new facets to an instrument that seems to grow more alien to me as I learn more and more of its cultural, spiritual, and therapeutic roles.